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The viewpoints of such groups as museum personnel, exhibit organizers, veterans, and historians are covered"-Provided by publisher Cataloging source DLC 1921- O'Reilly, Charles T. Exhibition planners knew early on how explosive their subject matter would be. Neufeld said that Harwit seized on the Enola Gay as an instrument of that transformation. Enola Gay Exhibit, First Draft - Final Draft. Issues covered include casualty figures, ethical questions, and political correctness, among others. Appointed by then Smithsonian Secretary Robert McCormick Adams in 1987, museum director Martin Harwit, an astrophysicist, had a mandate to revamp that heritage. Language eng Summary "After concisely covering the background of the Enola Gay and its mission, this study focuses on the controversy surrounding the museum exhibit.
National Air and Space Museum - Exhibitions | Political aspects.National Air & Space Museum, planning for the exhibition in 1995 of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, has two concept documents in circulation. Atomic bomb - Moral and ethical aspects The Enola Gay and the Smithsonian Chronology of the Controversy Including Key Documents 1993-1995.Hiroshima-shi (Japan) - History - Bombardment, 1945.Enola Gay (Bomber) - Exhibitions | Political aspects.
The exhibit, scheduled to open in the spring of 1995, the 50 th anniversary of the end of World War II, would focus on the. The Case of the Smithsonian Institution’s Enola Gay Exhibition’, The Journal of American History 82, no. In March 1994, a heated argument erupted over a planned exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. The Enola Gay controversy should therefore be seen as a public policy battle in which objective evidence and rational discussion were given up in favour of bigoted treatment of differences based on powerful emotions. Label The Enola Gay and the Smithsonian Institution Title The Enola Gay and the Smithsonian Institution Statement of responsibility Charles T. The Exhibit That Bombed: The Enola Gay Controversy and Contested Memory. The Enola Gay controversy showed that it was extremely difficult to discuss the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the.